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  • Do weighting area population thresholds impact estimate reliability/stability?

    Taylor Lampe
    Taylor Lampe

    We're trying to better understand estimate reliability/stability for 5-year estimates for sub-county geographies (i.e. places, county subdivisions, and tracts). We noticed that the ACS weighting methodology has minimum population thresholds for the weighting…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • ACS variance replicate estimates

    NineSigma
    NineSigma

    Hello, Can someone provide a simple explanation for the 4x multiplier in the VRE variance estimate question?  I'm not familiar with survey design and analysis, so the references in the documentation are hard to follow.  I assume this arises from the…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Household Pulse Multi-week pooling

    Ennazus
    Ennazus

    Hello! Is there any documentation available on how to pool multiple waves of the Household Pulse data?

    To pool the data, do you need to use the micro data and aggregate via weighting?

    Is there a method to use pre-aggregated data and weight by sample size…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Recorded Webinar: New American Community Survey Data Products

    Mark Mather
    Mark Mather

    The Census Bureau organized a webinar on June 23rd for the State Data Centers, the Census Information Centers, and their Data Dissemination Staff focusing on "New American Community Survey Data Products." This webinar provides some additional details…

    • over 8 years ago
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  • calculating approximated MOE's for summed estimates that =0

    Miriam
    Miriam

    I am working on calculating approximated MOE's for summed estimates in ACS data. I understand that when at least one estimate 0, the MOE calculation should use only the largest MOE value for the estimates that equal zero (slide 26, https://www.census…

    • over 7 years ago
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